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In the week when the GOP Congress and White House will probably get its first major legislative victory by adopting a tax bill (even if it is economically insane), it never occurred to me that Donald Trump would step on his own story and tweet out totally nonsensical and hypocritical remarks about yesterday's fatal Amtrak derailment in Washington State.

The train accident that just occurred in DuPont, WA shows more than ever why our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must be approved quickly. Seven trillion dollars spent in the Middle East while our roads, bridges, tunnels, railways (and more) crumble! Not for long!

The Trump Family and Friends Tax Cut the president is pushing will increase the deficit and debt by at least $2 trillion over the next 10 years and make it far more difficult for any infrastructure plan to be enacted.

The reason we don't have an infrastructure plan yet is that, in spite of repeated promises that it would soon be sent to Congress, Trump hasn't submitted one yet.

Even if Trump had submitted and Congress had adopted an infrastructure plan earlier this year, none of it would have been spent by now and wouldn't have had an impact on yesterday's tragedy.

Trump has said in the past (especially about the events in Charlottesville) that he doesn't like to speak until he knows all the facts, yet he tweeted yesterday without knowing any of them. Was this really an infrastructure failure, human error, terrorism or something else?

In the wake of the shooting in Las Vegas, Trump insisted that the immediate aftermath of a tragedy was not the right time to call for congressional action. But yesterday, in the aftermath of a tragedy that didn't involve guns, he did what he said no one should do by...wait for it...demanding congressional action.

The only question at this point is whether Trump thinks that winning the Mulvaney Award twice is an honor worth tweeting about.

I have been involved with the federal budget and congressional budget process throughout my entire career. In addition to being one of the few people who has served on…

I have been involved with the federal budget and congressional budget process throughout my entire career. In addition to being one of the few people who has served on the staffs of the House and Senate Budget Committees, I'm the author of The Guide to the Federal Budget, which was published annually from 1982 to 2000 and was one of the most-assigned texts on the topic. I founded and edited Federal Budget Report, a newsletter that was published for almost two decades. I've also written weekly columns on the budget for NationalJournal.com and Roll Call and founded the Capital Gains and Games blog. In addition to my work as an executive vice president of a global communications agency, I'm adjunct professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. I have a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Politics and Psychology from NYU. I live in the Washington, D.C. area.